6:32 PM,
Oct. 6, 2012

Written by

Ryan Dunleavy
| @rydunleavy

No starting fullback. No soft defense to overpower. And still no indication that the Rutgers football team's lively ground game is going to slip back into dormancy any time soon.

Matched up against the sixth-ranked rushing defense in the country in its first game following the season-ending injury to lead blocker Michael Burton, undefeated No. 22 Rutgers showed it can run effectively out of sets other than its favored base packages during a 19-3 victory against Connecticut in front of 50,870 at High Points Solution Stadium.